Vanessa Scanlon
@VanessaScanlon
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First generation Cuban-American; Wife to Superman; Mother of two boys; Biomedical researcher with interests in bone and blood homeostasis. Opinions are my own.
Farmington, CT
Joined July 2019
This is an incredible honor owing to the many people who supported my professional development and allowed me to be a part of theirs. @ISEHSociety
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RT @ChrisMurphyCT: Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line….
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RT @RuiBenedito_: The new Department of Functional Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine is looking for scientists….
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So many of us owe so much to @Krauselab_Yale for giving us the space and opportunity to succeed. It’s such a fruitful ground for both personal and professional growth! #MentorFirst.
"Dr. Krause . create[s] an environment where all trainees feel safe, valued, and respected, better enabling the next generation of hematologists to pursue and be successful in their careers.". Congrats @Krauselab_Yale on receiving the ASH Advancing Inclusive Excellence Award!.
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RT @labonnelab: Proud to be a signatory on a letter in support of the courageous staff at the NIH who penned the Bethesda Declaration to de….
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President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.”
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RT @LeeGrimesLab: ASH Bridge Award direct cost floor was already raised to $500K/yr. Now the number of applications funded is dramatically….
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Calls for volunteers to serve on a variety of committees for the @ISEHSociety are open now! Check out these opportunities if you're interested in developing leadership skills and your professional network. It takes a village!
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RT @catgyoung: We are going to lose an entire generation of scientists. NSF, one of the largest federal funder of STEM education has seen….
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I really hope people move past the two-party mindset because I genuinely worry, as our first president George Washington warned, that it will cause the collapse of what I still believe can be a great nation.
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After my experience today meeting with Congressmen across the aisle, I know that we the people are polarized, it shows in who we elected.
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That is no longer a given when we bow out of our leadership role and allow other countries to become potential gate keepers of innovation and regulatory standards.
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I took for granted my whole life that the newest, safest, most effective medical treatments in the world were accessible to me.
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but in reality will unleash predatory clinics that omit necessary data that patients need to make their own informed decisions.
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Because publicly available documentation on this meeting is conspicuously missing, we are concerned that the discussion that ensued is attempting to spin deregulation as an attempt to “increase access to healthcare”.
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with invited representatives from unproven stem cell therapy clinics that intentionally excluded community-respected experts on stem cell biology and their therapeutic use.
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Distressingly, I learned that Secretary Kennedy (😑) has conducted at least one private round table discussion (which are required to be publicly announced and documented).
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I am concerned that people will lose trust in life-saving scientifically tested stem cell therapies such as bone marrow transplantation because most people don’t understand a whole lot about the differences between tissue-derived adult stem cells and how they work.
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As more adverse events from unproven stem cell therapies are uncovered (because without regulatory oversight the clinics are under no obligation to report them),.
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and also deter people from receiving rigorously tested gold standard treatments that have demonstrated safety and efficacy.
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